The grandmother of the municipality of Tías, Mrs. Agapita González Hernández, celebrated her 100th birthday this Saturday, June 8, in the company of her large family and the mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, who gave the grandmother a bouquet of flowers.
Shortly before 11 o'clock, the family home of Mrs. Agapita González Hernández, in the urban center of Tías, received a visit from the mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, who brought a cake and a bouquet of flowers. Inside the home was Mrs. Agapita with her large family, many of whom traveled specifically to the island for this celebration. As the grandmother directly commented to the journalists and photographers, "I was not expecting this birthday party."
The City Council and the family had agreed on this small, and great, surprise. After the figures with the 100 years of age were lit, Mrs. Agapita González was moved and said, before everyone's surprised face, that "this must be repeated like this in another hundred years."
Mrs. Agapita, has been a mother of 8 children, was born on June 8, 1913 in the town of Masdache, Tías. Throughout her life she has lived in La Vegueta (Tinajo), Playa Quemada (Yaiza) and Tías, the current municipality where her family has had their home and residence for many years.
Last March 8, International Working Women's Day, the Municipal Corporation of Tías, through a proposal from the Department of the Elderly and Women, under the coordination of the councilor Aroa Pérez, gave her
an institutional recognition to Mrs. Agapita González Hernández.
Today, the first mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, gave the grandmother of Tías a photo album of that day, plus the afternoon of the birthday and a bouquet of flowers, for her centenary.